Try that bone on another dog, said the landlord; as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool.
Basketball originated in 1891 when a future Presbyterian minister named James Naismith (1861-1939) was assigned to teach a physical education class at a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Updated August 21, 2016. Basketball is an original American game invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891. He designed it with rules of its own. These are the rules published in January, 1892 in the school newspaper where he instituted the game. The rules set out a game that is a non-contact sport played indoors.